Hi kitoskeris4,
I will also try to answer your questions. First of all I think I can help you with Chada and Thorn because I have that game ^^
I won't answer with yes or now, because you must decide if it fits for you or not. But maybe its useful.
Is the third Legends of Andor (The Last Hope) a good game? It is better or worse in comparsion to the first one? I ask that because the first one is sold out =(
The Last Hope is a Stand Alone Game. But it tells the end of the Legends of Andor. So you can play it without the Legends before, but the story may be difficult to understand.
The Legends do more storytelling than in "The Legends of Andor" and "Trip to the North" but, in my opinion they are more difficult to play.
So in comparrison it's not easy to say wich one is better. It depends on what you want.
Deeper story, more storytelling and difficult legends: Last Hope
A little bit less storytelling, more background informations, the beginning of the whole story and some easier legends than in the Last Hope: The Legends of Andor.
Does the game allow customization?
Yes, of course! In the german rules is a "developer guide" and in the first generation were some blanko cards in the game to develop your own legend. Now you can find this informations in the forum and on the website of the Legends of Andor.
So I come to your next point with the characters and legends:
Feel free to do what you want! Create your own Character! Maybe you create a useful price Thorald?!
Or create your own legend!
You can ask the community in this forum whenever you need their help for testing your work or only chatting about Andor. Or if you have a quastion to the rules of the game. Normaly you get an answer very soon after asking. So we have a very active community and a realy great one.
You can look in the Tabs "Fan-Helden" and "Fan-Legenden" to finde all the characters and legends made by the community. The Tab "Spielvarianten" contains little expansions made by fans for fans.
I've seen the game has quite some expansions and characters available to buy. Are they worth it? Do they really improve the game?
Some of this expansions, characters and legends you can also find on the website. There you can find some backgroundstories to the characters too. The characters you can buy allow you playing the game with 5-6 players and every character has it's own specialities to make the game more difficult or easy. With the other expansion packs you can discover the world of Andor and his story.
So if you want to know ALL you definitly will need it
But for the beginning "The Legends of Andor" or "The Last Hope" will do a good job.
Is Legends of Andor: Chada & Thorn worth it? How it is compared to the main game?
So I think, this is a very difficult question...
I think, you can't compare C&T with "The Legends of Andor" because it's a complete different system.
First of all: C&T is a game only for two players or one single player.
The second thing is: it's more a deck building game. You must pass Narkon. For that purpose you must deal with your card decks to manage this.
If you like the stories on the last cards in the Legends of Andor you may be disappointed, because they are lost at the end of the stations you must pass in C&T.
Some people like the game, some not. In my opinion it's a nice game for two players in the World of Andorif you don't have the time to play a normal legend or to take it with you in Holiday.
But it's not realy necessary for the whole story.
I hope, you find the answer useful an a way
Greetings to brazil!
The Cat
